For The Coffee Fiend

My husband, Glen and I are big coffee drinkers. At home we drink instant coffee, for ease mostly and because we don’t have a coffee maker anymore. Taking into account we work until about 1630, Monday to Friday, we still manage to work our way through at least one 250g jar of Nescafe Gold Blend. In America we also went to Starbucks at least once a day. We have Starbucks here in Germany, but only in the major cities. To be honest I am spoilt, Americans know there coffee and in Starbucks in America, it was always consistent and always tasted the same, if you asked for a caramel macchiato, then that’s what you would get, here it is a little hit and miss as to whether that is what you will get here, cappuccino isn’t much better either, although better than going for a plain coffee. Every now and again I enjoy a good iced coffee, this one is rather good with a glug or three of Baileys in it.

Iced Coffee (makes 2 cups)

4 tsps coffee granules

1 cup boiling water
1 cup fat free milk
4 tsp chocolate syrup
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
Ice cubes
Baileys optional

1. In a jug, dissolve the coffee in the boiling water, stir in the milk, chocolate syrup and vanilla, mix well and serve over the ice.
2. For an added kick, add chilled baileys.